"Blue Planet II Blue Planet II is a 2017 British nature documentary series on marine life produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Like its predecessor, ""The Blue Planet"" (2001), it is narrated and presented by naturalist Sir David Attenborough, while the main music score was composed by Hans Zimmer. The series was debuted on 29 October 2017 and was simulcast on BBC One, BBC One HD and BBC Earth, making it the first natural history series to premiere on the same day in the United Kingdom, Nordic regions, Europe and in Asia. In the United States, the series premiered"
"whilst some international versions used alternative narrators. The series has eleven episodes, each of which features a global overview of a different biome or habitat on Earth. At the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. Ten years later, the BBC announced a six-part sequel had been commissioned, titled ""Planet Earth II"", the first television series produced by the BBC in Ultra-high-definition (4K). David Attenborough returned as narrator and presenter. In 2001 the BBC broadcast ""The Blue Planet"", a series on the natural history of the world's oceans."
"series was eventually sold to 130 countries. On 25 March 2007, the series began its run on American television on the Discovery network, premiering on the Discovery Channel and Discovery HD Theater. There were a number of revisions to the original British programme. Actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver was brought in to replace David Attenborough as narrator, as it was thought her familiarity to American audiences would attract more viewers. The Discovery programmes also used a slightly different script to the British original. The series was broadcast on Sundays in one 3-hour block followed by four 2-hour blocks. The ""Planet"
"Man on Earth Man on Earth is a four-part British documentary television series presented by Tony Robinson. The programme documents the effects of climate change across 200,000 years of human history. The series premiered 7 December 2009 on Channel 4 with 1.4 million viewers. Accompanying Robinson to help explain the science are archaeologist Dr. Jago Cooper and climate modeller Dr. Joy Singarayer. Sam Wollaston of ""The Guardian"" said the programme is ""interesting and intelligently done – no embarrassing reconstructions with hairy chaps brandishing spears and grunting"". However, Jeremy Clay of the ""Leicester Mercury"" felt that the programme covered much of"
"Earth: The Power of the Planet Earth: The Power of the Planet is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 20 November 2007. The five-part series is presented by geologist Iain Stewart. In the United States, the series was broadcast in 2008 on the National Geographic Channel as Earth: The Biography. During filming in Madagascar, a new species of ant was discovered by Brian Fisher and named after Stewart: ""Cerapachys iainstewarti"". A two-disc DVD of the series was released on the 14 January 2008, followed by a two-disc Blu-ray set of the series being made available"
"on the 15 September 2008. A 240-page hardcover book written by Iain Stewart and John Lynch () covering the topics seen in the episodes was released prior to the series being broadcast on the 18 October 2007. Earth: The Power of the Planet Earth: The Power of the Planet is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 20 November 2007. The five-part series is presented by geologist Iain Stewart. In the United States, the series was broadcast in 2008 on the National Geographic Channel as Earth: The Biography. During filming in Madagascar, a new species of"
"the United States, ""Planet Earth"" drew equally impressive ratings when it premiered on Discovery and Discovery HD Theater on 25 March 2007. The first three episodes (screened back to back) averaged 5.72 million viewers with a peak of 6.07 million viewers, giving the network its third highest audience ever. It was also the most watched Discovery programme since ""The Flight That Fought Back"" in 2005. In February 2016, the BBC announced a six-part sequel had been commissioned, titled ""Planet Earth II"", for release in late 2016, with Sir David Attenborough returning as narrator and presenter. As with the 2006 series,"
"Life on Earth (TV series) Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough is a British television natural history series made by the BBC in association with Warner Bros. and Reiner Moritz Productions Productions. It was transmitted in the UK from 16 January 1979. During the course of the series presenter David Attenborough, following the format established by Kenneth Clark's ""Civilisation"" and Jacob Bronowski's ""The Ascent of Man"" (both series which he designed and produced as director of BBC2), travels the globe in order to trace the story of the evolution of life on the planet. Like the earlier"
"Peter"", Arthur Bostrom (BA Hons), Officer Crabtree in ""'Allo 'Allo!"", Nish Kumar, stand-up comedian, Jamie Campbell (English Literature), filmmaker, Alastair Fothergill (Zoology, 1983), series producer of ""The Blue Planet"", ""Planet Earth"" and the director of ""Earth"", Shelagh Fogarty (Modern Languages, 1988), host of the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show, Lorraine Heggessey (English Language & Literature), the first female Controller of BBC One and Chris Terrill (Anthropology and Geography), documentary maker, writer and adventurer. Other BBC hosts who have graduated from Durham include Chris Hollins, sports presenter on BBC Breakfast, Gabby Logan (Law, 1995), Kate Silverton (Psychology), Jeremy Vine (English),"
"Planet Earth (film) Planet Earth is a science fiction television movie that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett (from a story by Roddenberry). It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and stars John Saxon as Dylan Hunt. It was presented as a pilot for what was hoped to be a new weekly television series. The pilot focused on gender relations from an early 1970s perspective. Dylan Hunt, confronted with a post-apocalyptic matriarchal society, muses, ""Women's lib? Or women's lib gone mad..."" ""Planet Earth"" was the second attempt by Roddenberry to create"
"Raymond Baxter Raymond Frederic Baxter OBE (25 January 1922 – 15 September 2006) was an English television presenter and writer. He is best known for being the first presenter of the BBC Television science programme ""Tomorrow's World"", continuing for 12 years, from 1965 to 1977. He also provided radio commentary at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the funerals of King George VI, Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten of Burma, and the first flight of Concorde. Baxter was born in Ilford in Essex. His father was a science teacher. He was educated at Ilford County High School, a grammar school"
"several other countries. International broadcasters carrying Planet Earth include Australia on ABC and GEM, Canada on CBC and CTV, New Zealand on Prime, the U.S. on Discovery Channel and Velocity and Science and Animal Planet and Destination America and BBC America. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The episodes are each an hour in length, comprising the main programme and a 10-minute featurette called ""Planet Earth Diaries"", which details the filming of a particular event. In the UK, ""Planet Earth"" was split into two parts, broadcast in spring and autumn 2006. The first five episodes premiered on BBC One at 9:00 pm on Sundays, beginning"
"the same material as the BBC's ""The Incredible Human Journey"", which aired earlier in the year. Clay was also not confident in the choice of Tony Robinson as the presenter saying that he ""exudes enthusiasm rather than authority, and delivered some of his facts to camera with the air of a man who's only recently heard them himself"". Man on Earth Man on Earth is a four-part British documentary television series presented by Tony Robinson. The programme documents the effects of climate change across 200,000 years of human history. The series premiered 7 December 2009 on Channel 4 with 1.4"
"them a ""talking to"". The offensive language used by performers at the event and broadcast live before the watershed caused the BBC to be censured by media regulator Ofcom. Live Earth concert, London The Live Earth concert in the United Kingdom was held at Wembley Stadium, London, England on 7 July 2007. In Britain, the BBC provided live television coverage of the show on BBC Two, followed by BBC One later on, BBC Radio 1, and BBC HD. The television coverage was presented by Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton and Edith Bowman. Coverage commenced at 13:00 on BBC Two and concluded"
"Planet Earth Live (TV series) Planet Earth Live is a live-action nature documentary screened on British television. Produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and broadcast in May 2012, the programme was presented by Richard Hammond and Julia Bradbury. ""Planet Earth Live"" featured real-time footage of young animals from five continents throughout the month of May. Broadcast three times per week, teams of nature experts and documentary makers monitored the activity of animals in their area, reporting back on the day's events. Animals featured included meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, American black bears in Minnesota, lions and African bush elephants"
"Earthflight Earthflight is a British nature documentary that shows a flight from the view of the wings of birds across six continents, showing some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view. The BBC series was created by John Downer and narrated by David Tennant and consisted of six 60-minute episodes. The first episode aired on BBC One on 29 December 2011. A two-hour subset of ""Earthflight"" was aired in October 2012 by the Discovery Channel in the US as ""Winged Planet"". The entire series with rerecorded narrative aired on PBS, beginning in September 2013, under the title"
"Planet Earth: The Future Planet Earth: The Future is a 2006 BBC documentary series on the environment and conservation, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit as a companion to the multi-award winning nature documentary ""Planet Earth"". The programmes were originally broadcast on BBC Four immediately after the final three episodes of ""Planet Earth"" on BBC One. Each episode highlights the conservation issues surrounding some of the species and environments featured in ""Planet Earth"", using interviews with the film-makers and eminent figures from the fields of science, conservation, politics, and theology. The programmes are narrated by Simon Poland and the"
"books, calendars, a board game, jigsaws, stationery, cards, and more. A five-disc DVD box set of the complete series (BBCDVD1883) was released in the UK for Regions 2 and 4 (PAL) on 27 November 2006 by 2 entertain. It is presented in 5.1-channel Dolby Digital surround sound and video. The bonus features include ""Planet Earth Diaries"" (presented immediately after each episode as for the original TV broadcast) and """". In the United States, two versions of the same five-disc set were released as a Region 1 (NTSC) DVD on 24 April 2007. The BBC Warner release retained David Attenborough's narration"
"Watt on Earth Watt on Earth is a children's television programme that ran for two 12-episode series in 1991 and 1992, shown as part of Children's BBC. It was written by the Doctor Who writers Pip and Jane Baker. The show centres around the titular character Watt (Garth Napier Jones); an extraterrestrial with, by human standards, an odd taste in food, and the ability to transanimateobjectify. He comes to Earth to flee his evil uncle: Watt is heir to the throne on his home planet, and his uncle (voice: Michael Kilgarriff) had sent his top henchman Jemadah (John Grillo) to"
"Alexander Armstrong Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter and bass baritone singer, best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show ""Pointless"". Aside from his ""Armstrong and Miller"" sketch show characters, Armstrong's television credits include a leading role in the TV series ""Life Begins"", whilst he also voiced Professor M in ""Tooned"", alien supercomputer Mr Smith in the ""Doctor Who"" spin-off ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"" as well as the main show's two part story ""The Stolen Earth"" / ""Journey's"
"with ""Critical Situation"". In 2011, National Geographic revived the show and aired another 22 episodes over three seasons until the following year. Narrators of the show are Ashton Smith (American narrator for seasons 1 to 3), Richard Vaughan (British narrator for every season except 3), and Peter Guinness (British narrator for season 3). The show was revived again, with the first episode of season 7 airing on 15 February 2018. Its return has been paired with the 17th Season UK Premiere of ""Air Crash Investigation"", which aired back to back beginning on 15 February at 8PM on National Geographic UK's"
"The Living Planet The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 19 January 1984. The sequel to his pioneering ""Life on Earth"", it is a study of the ways in which living organisms, including humans, adapt to their surroundings. Each of the twelve 55-minute episodes (one fewer than his previous series) featured a different environment. The executive producer was Richard Brock and the music was composed by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series, it was"
"British release, the crew decides to press on to Pluto, making history. The American version, broadcast on The Science Channel, was trimmed for length, the crew deciding to turn back at this stage rather than continue. The programme is narrated by David Suchet. Also, several members of Mission Control, most notably: The film had initially been titled ""Walking with Spacemen"" due to the involvement of Tim Haines, the creator of the ""Walking with Dinosaurs"" series. This title was eventually dropped as ""Space Odyssey"" had little in common with the ""Walking with . . ."" series. To prepare them for the"
"To the Ends of the Earth (TV series) To the Ends of the Earth is a three-part BBC television miniseries adaptation of the trilogy of novels of the same name by William Golding. It premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in July 2005, and in the United States on PBS as part of Masterpiece Theatre in October 2006. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jared Harris, the series was critically acclaimed with ""The New York Times"" calling it ""an intriguing drama"" and ""The Guardian"" ""the best TV drama of the year by a nautical mile."" A BBC press release quoted"
"Frozen Planet Frozen Planet is a 2011 British nature documentary series, co-produced by the BBC and The Open University. It was filmed by the BBC Natural History Unit. The production team, which includes executive producer Alastair Fothergill and series producer Vanessa Berlowitz, were previously responsible for the award-winning series ""The Blue Planet"" (2001) and ""Planet Earth"" (2006), and ""Frozen Planet"" is billed as a sequel of sorts. David Attenborough returns as narrator. It is distributed under licence by the BBC in other countries, Discovery Channel for North America, ZDF for Germany, Antena 3 for Spain and Skai TV for Greece."
"by BBC Warner. Earthflight Earthflight is a British nature documentary that shows a flight from the view of the wings of birds across six continents, showing some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view. The BBC series was created by John Downer and narrated by David Tennant and consisted of six 60-minute episodes. The first episode aired on BBC One on 29 December 2011. A two-hour subset of ""Earthflight"" was aired in October 2012 by the Discovery Channel in the US as ""Winged Planet"". The entire series with rerecorded narrative aired on PBS, beginning in September 2013,"
"by the BBC as a personal statement on the effects of climate change at the poles. A special programme called ""Frozen Planet: The Epic Journey"" featuring re-edited highlights from the series was broadcast on BBC One on 28 December 2011. In the United States, ""Frozen Planet"" premiered on the Discovery Channel on 18 March 2012 with Alec Baldwin replacing David Attenborough as narrator of the first six episodes. The ""Autumn"" episode from the BBC series was replaced by ""The Making Of Frozen Planet"", a compilation of the ""Freeze Frame"" featurettes, and the title of the sixth episode was changed from"
"The Blue Planet The Blue Planet is a British nature documentary series created and produced by the BBC. It premiered on 12 September 2001 in the United Kingdom. It is narrated by David Attenborough. Described as ""the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans"", each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of marine life. The underwater photography included creatures and behaviour that had previously never been filmed. The series won a number of Emmy and BAFTA TV awards for its music and cinematography. The executive producer was Alastair Fothergill and the music"
"on marine life. He decided not to use an on-screen presenter due to difficulties in speaking to a camera through diving apparatus, but asked Attenborough to narrate the films. The same team reunited for ""Planet Earth"" (2006), the biggest nature documentary ever made for television and the first BBC wildlife series to be shot in high definition. In 2009, he co-wrote and narrated ""Life"", a ten-part series focussing on extraordinary animal behaviour, and narrated ""Nature's Great Events"", which showed how seasonal changes trigger major natural spectacles. In 2011, Fothergill gave Attenborough a more prominent role in ""Frozen Planet"", a major"
"Live Earth concert, London The Live Earth concert in the United Kingdom was held at Wembley Stadium, London, England on 7 July 2007. In Britain, the BBC provided live television coverage of the show on BBC Two, followed by BBC One later on, BBC Radio 1, and BBC HD. The television coverage was presented by Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton and Edith Bowman. Coverage commenced at 13:00 on BBC Two and concluded at 17:20 continuing on BBC One at 17:30. In Ireland, RTÉ Two provided live coverage starting from 12:30 until 19:00 and then again from 21:30 until 06:00 the following"
"Underground (1958 TV play) Underground was a science fiction television play presented as part of the British anthology series ""Armchair Theatre"" which was broadcast live by the ITV commercial network on 30 November 1958. It is chiefly remembered because an actor had a fatal heart attack during transmission. Written by dramatist James Forsyth (1913–2005) the play depicted survivors from a nuclear holocaust living in the London Underground. It featured actors Donald Houston, Ian Curry, Patricia Jessel, Warren Mitchell and 33-year-old Gareth Jones in what would be his last role. A little over halfway through the production, Gareth Jones complained of"
"Planet Earth (1986 TV series) Planet Earth is a seven-episode 1986 PBS television documentary series focusing on the Earth, narrated by Richard Kiley. ""Planet Earth"" explores geoscience and how discoveries of the early and mid-1980s were revolutionizing mankind's understanding of the Earth's past, present, and future. It also highlights scientific discoveries not yet fully understood and still under study in the mid-1980s. The series explores the Earth's origins, history, and structure; the forces that operate continually to alter its surface; its oceans; its climate; its natural resources; its biosphere and the effects of life on the physical world; its relationship"
"accident, it has violated the rules of its scout mission (interfering with events on Earth) and must end its link with him completely. Its further work on Earth will be conducted in a much more covert manner. The novel was adapted and produced by John Tydeman as a single 60 minute drama for the BBC Radio 2, and first broadcast on 27 November 1968. The cast includes: BBC Radio 4 presented a reading by Andrew Burt of the novel in seven 15-minute episodes, abridged by Neville Teller, produced by David Johnson, and broadcast daily between 19 and 27 May 1975."